Yeah! Even more so if you have first-class macros (fexprs) like say Kernel does. I had a lot of fun building a fexpr-based lisp-1 with quasiquote (which Kernel

Yeah! Even more so if you have first-class macros (fexprs) like say Kernel does. I had a lot of fun building a fexpr-based lisp-1 with quasiquote (which Kernel eschews) and also with a first-class apply that works on both functions and macros. Not even Kernel can do that. $ git clone https://github.com/akkartik/wart $ cd wart $ ./wart ready! type in an expression, then hit enter twice. ctrl-d exits. mac (foo x) `(+ ,x 1) => (object function {sig, body}) (foo 3) => 4 (foo @(list 3)) # apply analogous to the ,@ splice operator => 4 (foo @'(3)) => 4 More info at http://akkartik.name/post/wart http://akkartik.name/post/wart. Lots of example programs at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Wart http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Wart.